News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1887-03-31
NOTES BY THE WAYSIDE.

A CITIZEN of Durand, Wis, scooting,
down hill on a toboggan, ran into q
COW, and knocked her legs out from
under her, and she sat down on him
and nearly crushed him as fiat as his
toboggan.
A POT hunter in Georgia came upon a
convey of twelve patridges hudaled
together on the ground. He tired INTO
the bunch and murdered eleven ana
then killed the twelfth with his second
barrel as it tired to fly away.
JOSEPH MESSENGER, of Altoona, Pa,
found nest of six young rats IN par
rel. He put his cat in the barrel that
she might slaughter them, but she then
and there adopted the ratings, and en-
deavored to carry them away in her
mouth as she would her own kittens.
A CITIZEN of Hawkinsville, Ca,
bought turtle, cut off its head, and
had turtle soup tor dinner. The next day
an transporting chicken pecking at the
head was grabbed. and was not released
until the mouth of the head of the cook
ed turtle was opened with knife.
IGNAT.Us RrGG1N, an Illinois farmer,
worth a quarter of million, has four
nice girls, well educated and accomp4
lished He also has hobby for home
made cloth, and so the Rlggin girls spin,
and weave wool into cloth, and then
make it into dresses for themselves and
clothes for the old man.
NEVADA CITY boasts of strong man,
big Cornish miner, who the other
day, when a riders saddle turned and
threw him to the ground with his foot
in the stirrups, seized the frightened
horse by the tail and held him by main
strength until the rider was rescued from
his dangerous situation.
AMONG the -%psssengers on snow
bound train in British Columbia was ond
whose scolding on account of the delay
was noticeable. There was some rea-
son for his anger, tor he was due IN
Brandon in five hours to be married,
and about 600 miles Of snow drifts lay
between him and happiness.
In hotel not far from Albany
stranger who takes an apartment Tor the
night is confronted by sign, printed
with large type upon red pasteooad,
which reads as follows dangerous
If you do not know how to turn OIL the
gas ask some one. Do not blow 1t out.
It will kill you" The proprietor is evil
IDENTIFY not fool-killer.
SIX miles from Machinaw, Ill, IS bit
of ground about eighty feet square that
is ALWAYS so warm that snow melts as
soon as it falls upon it. 1t is said that
when the earth there is disturbed Ii
flashes like burning powder, and that
peculiar gas comes up from the ground,
which so far has shattered every vessel
in which an effort has been made to
confine it.
A VERY valuable TO 10 edit n sud
denly disappeared twenty-five years ago
from the Royal Library at Berlin, and
during that time there appeared annually
search warrants, but all in vain Among
the most eager in search was DIR. s.,
who died recently 1t has since been
discovered that the Doctor had during
those twenty-five years been using the
folio to raise his seat.
A CITIZEN of Carson, New, tried to
cross the railroad track the other day IN
advance of an approaching express train.
He stubbed his toe, fell, and was in
danger of being run over, when an a9l e
Piute Indian. at great personal peril,
dragged him off the track. The citizen
thereupon pulled out a $40 gold piece.
and handed 1t to the Indian, saying;
"Old pard, you've earned it." e..
ABOUT a year ago the wife of Bo-
hemian. whose farm is near Highmorei
Oak, deserted him. The husband soon.
after wrote to an old sweetheart of his
in his native country, asking her to.
come over and be his bride. She said
she would, and he sent her money, and,
the other day she arrived. Both seemed
much surprised that the authorities
would not. permit them to Iaarry, be-
E3,s4.t lAe &sgsisr-esifeistih isssS-ss ss
- osnsr day Of three PEG peo..z
plesin His x5age. making trousers at 81
cents peIs for clothing house
tie mother and daughter do
The sewTsa An a machine and the
father rh8s psnssing, and the utmost
which fheEsean accomplish in a day
IS The making Of three pairs, the total
aarn4Faas being over 80 or 35 cents
III fsfe fll5ns These are indeed star
Vati0rf NJ i assss with from Is to IS hours
y o Els
: Tafs rel1arkable story comes from
False Efes} British Columbia, where
al ii said III Syhite man carried a keg
u = fsisk Jan Indian Camp, hoping
d sell Ma6sah advantage to the sim
5le chi VII W the forest. But appar-
d G3S ere prohibition red men,
Nv a hev b81nd the man, forced him to
NJ DOR non the key three days and
.lsree Nights, and then sent him home,
ifst knocking in the heads of the key
md letting the key of liquor soak into
he ground.
NHIIE tie steamer Mongkeet was
aking rice at Bangkok on Dec g. a |
,o0lle. aftas aday's work, took smoke |
,f opium. and then crawled under q |
seam in the hold. Then he fe into a |
tupor, was not discovered, ana the hold |
vas filed, and the hatch closed. Ten
laws after, s.tsHong Kong he was found
md when taken to the upper air at once
eyiyed, and soon was apparently well. |
lie had been unconscious during the ten
LAYS. and it is thought that the moist |
leaf from CAP TlCe udu hcpt Ills DOuy
warm, and the clammy air IN the hold
,rodght HIM into comatOse cOndiu n,
rom which he aweke only when fresh
ir was admitted.
A Pennsylvania Congressman came
lear causing a lively scandal, by being
aught kissing a lady In one of tho
orpers of a hall st the Arlington Hotel
n Washington, Says a local letter writ;
er, and when the lady was discovered
0 be his own wife they were both told
ne story that Senator Sherman's wife
ellis with gusto of how, when she first
anne here bride before the war, q
ady of much social experience, Mrs
ohm j Crittenden, solemnly warned
Ter that if she was seen so constantly
With her hlls&and they would certainly
e ia ked St-out. Mrs sherman says
hat, beina-gG; and very shy, she felt
t great hardship that she could not
ven enjoy her husbands society in
,ublic with impunity.
How Dow Raised the Devil.